Health & Lifestyle

The proposal by Gov. David A. Paterson would amount to a wide expansion of health insurance coverage to some 800,000 people 19 to 29 who are uninsured.

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Doctors can’t explain it, but every day in medicine there are people who know they are near death, no matter what the tests show.

Ira’s story is a classic example of invasive cardiology run amok.

The Ebola virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, has surfaced for the second time in less than two years in south-central Congo.

Many who are faced with a chronic condition or a terminal diagnosis find a new purpose in exercise, developing regimens that leave them in the best shape of their lives.

Teenagers often use social networking sites like MySpace to post intimate personal information they come to regret.

Researchers said that especially with young patients who were overweight but not yet obese, doctors might be missing a good chance to intervene.

A new study reports that the heart attack victims who gasp are more likely to survive -- especially if they are given chest compressions right away.

Recent research has helped clarify not just who is prone to self-handicapping but also its consequences -- and its possible benefits.

The quality of cancer care at different hospitals is uneven and raises thorny questions about what informed consent should mean.

Doctors will be able to make face-to-face Web calls on patients in Hawaii starting Jan. 15.

National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963.

The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty.

Behavioral scientists are fascinated by why people buy exercise machines, only to let them rust.

There is a much higher rate of hospitalization for most kinds of accidental injury in rural areas than in cities, a new report indicates.

Men who want to know whether they’re more likely to father a boy or a girl may garner clues from their family tree.

Could cooking oil, spices or canned foods stored next to a microwave oven be receiving unhealthy doses of microwave emissions?

As the body loses its ability to regulate glucose, parts of the brain involved in memory lose blood flow, researchers find.

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